There are a lot of interesting ones here, but Sheerly Genius is the one where the founders will either make a billion dollars or perish in a mysterious accident.
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
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#32I've worked with and talked to the Molly team. I think they are on track to do something really interesting in the AI space and bring a particular human sensibility that seems to be missing in other AIs that I interact with. If anyone is going to build the AI from Her, it's this team.
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#33California Dreamin' sounds pretty cool, I wonder how it tastes. I like the choice to do 10mg because it's enough for a decent buzz. It would be good if they did a 5mg version too, then you could have 2 or 3 without it getting too intense. If their target market is people drinking alcohol I imagine that being able to have more than one in a sitting will be important.
I’ve tried all the flavors and it’s pretty good! Still tastes a little bit too much like weed for my tastes but they do a pretty good job covering up the weed flavor. I think they’re working on a 5mg version.
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#34Safety Wing caught my eye ( https://www.safetywing.com ), but I've been using the same provider for years and would be hesitant to switch for only $30 extra a month, then worry I'd be getting lesser coverage. Does anyone have any experience with Safety Wing, or comments? Reading the coverage document is one of those things I think you need a medical or law degree for..
Same thing, it seems it would be simpler for me than using WorldNomads. I don't really know where I'll be next more than a 2-3 weeks ahead, and every time I finalize my next couple legs and head somewhere new, I need to apply for a new policy with WorldNomads. Also WorldNomads can be pretty expensive, sometimes it's a bit of a turn off. But I sort of trust that they'll cover me since they cater to "extreme" activities, so I still go with them.
Wondering what sort of coverage SafetyWing will do and their policy is way too long and opaque for me to make sense of. If they could have something that's like "You can go canyoneering/scuba diving/mountain biking" like WorldNomads does, and add to this "anywhere in the world with a subscription and we'll cover you for x$/month", I'd be sold. Even if it's the same price as WorldNomads in the end, just for the convenience.
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#35Safety Wing caught my eye ( https://www.safetywing.com ), but I've been using the same provider for years and would be hesitant to switch for only $30 extra a month, then worry I'd be getting lesser coverage. Does anyone have any experience with Safety Wing, or comments? Reading the coverage document is one of those things I think you need a medical or law degree for..
Same thing, it seems it would be simpler for me than using WorldNomads. I don't really know where I'll be next more than a 2-3 weeks ahead, and every time I finalize my next couple legs and head somewhere new, I need to apply for a new policy with WorldNomads. Also WorldNomads can be pretty expensive, sometimes it's a bit of a turn off. But I sort of trust that they'll cover me since they cater to "extreme" activitie…
Follow up: since it seems to be rather cheap and why not try it? I'm trying to sign up and the password policy is a bit scary/suggests that the passwords are not stored properly:
Password contains invalid characters (^, {, >, ?, >, ;)
[edit] well after sign up, it seems there's no way to get coverage and maybe the product isn't yet working. I guess this is really early days. =P
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#36Veriff really caught my attention. I've had to scan the front and then the back of my drivers license a bunch of times and send the jpeg into a company for verification. Doing it all on a phone would be great.
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#37Safety Wing caught my eye ( https://www.safetywing.com ), but I've been using the same provider for years and would be hesitant to switch for only $30 extra a month, then worry I'd be getting lesser coverage. Does anyone have any experience with Safety Wing, or comments? Reading the coverage document is one of those things I think you need a medical or law degree for..
Same thing, it seems it would be simpler for me than using WorldNomads. I don't really know where I'll be next more than a 2-3 weeks ahead, and every time I finalize my next couple legs and head somewhere new, I need to apply for a new policy with WorldNomads. Also WorldNomads can be pretty expensive, sometimes it's a bit of a turn off. But I sort of trust that they'll cover me since they cater to "extreme" activitie…
Looking at the policy doc (https://www.safetywing.com/documents/safety-wing-specimen-po...), it looks like scuba diving is covered as long as you are PADI or NAUI certified and not cave diving.
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#38Here's demo day #2: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/these-are-the-64-startups-...
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#39Sourcify is a really interesting outlier. From their case studies they seem like a (barely) tech-enabled service firm that puts real domain-expert human consulting effort behind every customer query for sourcing manufacturers. This is something where costs scale linearly (unlike software), but when the alternative is an opaque industry where only insiders can find good information regardless of price, a “low-tech” startup can still win by being a brand known to give this access at reasonable but linearly-scaling-sustainable prices. Democratization, not virality, is the key. Silicon Valley would do well to look closer at other firms with similar business models. Software isn’t the only way to make money and satisfy a B2B need.
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#40There are a lot of interesting ones here, but Sheerly Genius is the one where the founders will either make a billion dollars or perish in a mysterious accident.
I'm trying to figure out if I know any women that wear pantyhose. Maybe central coast California is not the target demographic.